I think I like the monitoring networks with sound method better than these bubbles. I see potential in it though as opposed to more traditional "top" style monitors.

I think it could be more useful if it was modified to have bubbles float up thr root window (background). Then one would not have to look at a small monitor on a panel, but could get a sort of subconcious feel for what is going. This would bring it almost on par with Peep for nonintrusiveness balanced with usefulness. It impossible for the eye to truly look at two things at once, but the ear can hear many things at once. Peep takes advantage of this. I think the bubbles are about as close to getting the eye to see more than one thing at once as one can get. And I think running them in the root window might be neat. Then again, this might be distracting.

How about a screensaver version of the bubbles too?